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Detecting phosphorylation-dependent interactions with the C-terminal domain of RNA polymerase II subunit rpb1p using a yeast two-hybrid assay
Doris Ursic, Jonathan S. Finkel and Michael R. Culbertson
volume 5 | issue 1
january/february/march 2008This is an open-access article
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Rpb1p, the largest subunit of S. cerevisiae RNA polymerase II, contains a repetitive structure called the C-terminal domain (CTD). The CTD serves as a scaffold for the regulated association and dissociation of more than a hundred proteins involved in RNA synthesis. Phosphorylation of two serine residues (Ser2 and Ser5) in the repeating units of the CTD change dynamically during the pre-initiation, initiation, elongation, and termination of transcription to control the binding and release of transcriptional components. A modification of the well established yeast two-hybrid assay for protein-protein interactions is described that detects interactions between phosphorylated forms of the CTD and proteins whose interactions with the CTD depend on phosphorylation. The efficacy of the approach was established by first showing that two-hybrid fusions containing the CTD are phosphorylated at Ser2 and Ser5 residues. Interactions between the CTD and three known CTD-binding proteins were analyzed. The results suggest that the modified two-hybrid system accurately assays CTD-binding and provides a new and convenient assay for CTD-binding proteins.
Authors
Doris Ursic
Laboratories of Genetics and Molecular Biology; University of Wisconsin; Madison, Wisconsin USA
Jonathan S. Finkel
Laboratories of Genetics and Molecular Biology; University of Wisconsin; Madison, Wisconsin USA
Michael R. Culbertson
Laboratories of Genetics and Molecular Biology; University of Wisconsin; Madison, Wisconsin USA
This is an open-access article
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